Exhibition "The time has come ..." Automatic translate

The Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (103 Lenina St.) will host an exhibition "The Time Has Come…", which presents the work of the famous Moscow artist Yuri Alexandrovich Macheret.

Yuri Alexandrovich was born in 1944 in Tbilisi into a family of filmmakers. In 1966 he graduated from the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905, then continued his education at the Moscow State Art Institute. V.I.Surikov in the workshop of the famous artist, professor D.K. Mochalsky, which he graduated in 1974. In 1977 he joined the Moscow Union of Artists. Yu. A. Macheret is a permanent participant of Moscow, republican, all-union and international exhibitions. He was awarded the medal of the USSR Academy of Arts. Many works by Y. A. Macheret are in museums and private collections in Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, and the USA.

It is not by chance that the exhibition was named by the author “The time has come…”. Yu. A. Macheret lived a long life, including in art, he has something to say to the audience as a person and as an artist. This exhibition presents a retrospective of the artist’s work over fifty years, from 1970 to 2020. It presents more than forty works, starting with a small portrait, created during the student period, and ending with paintings of recent years. Yuri Alexandrovich is diverse in his work, he paints landscapes, still lifes, portraits, everyday scenes, thematic paintings. The artist works within the framework of the realistic tradition, but in the images he created there is no realistic straightforwardness, genre narrative, they reveal the metamorphism of the author’s thinking, a tangibly philosophical understanding of life, or irony slips.

The works of Yu. A. Macheret are characterized by a variety of compositional solutions, which are determined by the creative vision of the author. To embody each image in a painting, the artist seeks and finds his own pictorial and plastic language. The palette of his works is also varied in terms of color: some paintings and sketches are executed in an impressionistically light, close color scale, in others, an open color sounds. The works created by him are filled with the experience of the state of nature in the landscape, the comprehension of the objective world in still life, or the reflection of the surrounding life in the genre of everyday life, the personality of a person in a portrait.

The exhibition will run from 09 July to 22 August 2021 in the premises of the Information, Educational and Exhibition Center of the KMII (Lenin str., 103).

The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00, on Saturday from 11.00 to 19.00. The day off is Monday. Contact phone - 8 (4842) 56-28-30.